Stan Flint

@tomascodes jk it's just a bunch of good old-fashioned if statements😅

@tomascodes Screenshot the game every sec and feed to gpt-5 API

Best application of AI so far

"More maps 🗺️ (v1.33)" update is out now! New maps have been added. The goal is to create some balanced maps for competitive games and solve the bias of random spawns on procedural maps. Check them out now at hexbois.com

@ThinMatrix I love the cosy & casual vibes you're creating here! It makes me think the game would translate nicely to a mobile or Switch release, do you have any plans for other platform releases? (It would also make a fascinating devlog to watch the porting process)

Moving on from the farmers' market feature for now. To finish up I added a couple of items that are used to upgrade your stall, like these product boxes which give you extra selling slots. Starting work on the restaurant task system today!

@devortel Yes it was! We have to meet again and grab some pizza 🍕!

@StanFlintDev It was awesome meeting you! Glad we had a chance to hang out

First time at #GDC was a blast!!! I’d probably met 2 or 3 gamedevs in-person before and within a week I’ve met 100s! So many cool people creating cool things

I even met the legend himself @PolyMarsYT !

I've just added bots to the game, here is 20 of them playing an FFA match. It's really interesting to see their attack/defence patterns in a timelapse! I spent about an hour watching this match take place lol

@tomascodes Press F4 for all your arrow needs ↗️😁

@StanFlintDev OOOOH THATS SO PRETTY Does the player get access to the arrow view?

Soldiers will now march towards your enemies and attack them! The path finding is all pre-computed, it’s quite mesmerising to watch them follow the arrows…

HEX BOIS doesn't use a frontend framework. However, the new "Map Selector" UI is actually an isolated Svelte component. I was surprised at how well this works. You could steadily migrate a whole project to Svelte whilst still shipping new features with this technique.

Terrain 🏔️ has been added to HEX BOIS. This might be the most interesting update to-date? It feels really refreshing to not be playing on a blank board. The terrain is all procedural as well, so there are infinitely many maps to explore!

If you’ve enjoyed reading this (somewhat) interesting web dev jargon, you can try out the finished product at hexbois.com ❤️

In the future, I’d love to set custom page titles and descriptions for link embeds. This will make the invite links POP✨ when shared in groupchats, but this is starting to feature-creep 😅 (plus HEX BOIS isn’t setup for SSR yet)

The most recent update to my web game adds custom invite links that can be shared to join the same match. I think these are a super interesting piece of web dev…

@sendwithloops The laptop can always fit one more sticker! 👋

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